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<blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 3456999" data-attributes="member: 20239"><p>That varies from my experience pretty sharply. IME the scenario goes more like this....</p><p></p><p>You gathered over in Kathy's basement for a game of D&D, assuming Ryan would run his 7th Sea adventure. Todd mentions he'd like to play a Warforged Ninja. Then Bob, Billy and Kathy all pipe up with their ideas. Ryan says "Hm...doesn't sound like a 7th Sea game anymore, why don't one of you guys run a game where these kinds of characters will fit in." Todd, Bob, Billy and Kathy all get uncomfortable looks on their faces and fall all over themselves telling Ryan how great his DMing skills are and how they always really love his games because the last thing Todd, Bob, Billy and Kathy want to do is give up their seat as a player and put in the work that it takes to sit in the DM's chair. So, Ryan says, "Well, I'm happy to play in any game you guys want to run, but if I'm putting in the work to run the game, I'm going to run 7th Sea... and Warforged Ninjae aren't a PC option." Todd, Bob, Billy and Kathy all shut up and roll up appropriately themed characters. Bob, Billy and Kathy do so good-naturedly, because they're just happy to be playing and Ryan always runs a really fun game. </p><p></p><p>Todd harbours bitter resentment in his heart at not getting to play the cool new character concept he came up with and takes it out on Ryan by being kind of a prick for the rest of the campaign and posting rants about him under a pseudonym at ENWorld.</p><p></p><p>YMMV. (And I hope for your sake it does. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> )</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ourph, post: 3456999, member: 20239"] That varies from my experience pretty sharply. IME the scenario goes more like this.... You gathered over in Kathy's basement for a game of D&D, assuming Ryan would run his 7th Sea adventure. Todd mentions he'd like to play a Warforged Ninja. Then Bob, Billy and Kathy all pipe up with their ideas. Ryan says "Hm...doesn't sound like a 7th Sea game anymore, why don't one of you guys run a game where these kinds of characters will fit in." Todd, Bob, Billy and Kathy all get uncomfortable looks on their faces and fall all over themselves telling Ryan how great his DMing skills are and how they always really love his games because the last thing Todd, Bob, Billy and Kathy want to do is give up their seat as a player and put in the work that it takes to sit in the DM's chair. So, Ryan says, "Well, I'm happy to play in any game you guys want to run, but if I'm putting in the work to run the game, I'm going to run 7th Sea... and Warforged Ninjae aren't a PC option." Todd, Bob, Billy and Kathy all shut up and roll up appropriately themed characters. Bob, Billy and Kathy do so good-naturedly, because they're just happy to be playing and Ryan always runs a really fun game. Todd harbours bitter resentment in his heart at not getting to play the cool new character concept he came up with and takes it out on Ryan by being kind of a prick for the rest of the campaign and posting rants about him under a pseudonym at ENWorld. YMMV. (And I hope for your sake it does. :D ) [/QUOTE]
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